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> Running on the blazing fast Node.js engine Is Node.js that blazing-fast ?

• dspillett 6y ago
  It certainly can be, depending on what you compare it against and how you measure. It is based on V8 which in many (caveat: far from all) benchmarks comes out as the fastest JS engine, so by that definition in the realm of JS powered components it is pretty quick. node.js solutions will often perform better than common configurations of other options too - Apache+PHP to pick one example out of the air. Then again, depending on the code other configurations of PHP might outperform Node.
• freedomben 6y ago
  Surprisingly yes. It has billions of dollars or optimizations and research in it over the years and can really fly. Of course you can write slow node code just like you can in any language, but a single well-written node instance can handle a lot of traffic.
  • sverhagen 6y ago
    Billions of dollars? I have no beef with Node, but that seems like a lot. Could you elaborate?